iBlog: Nishit Shah

It was Saturday evening and suddenly I got a call from Office. Instructions were clear and to the point “Leave whatever you are doing and come to office in couple of hours as we all Sysads are going to Arnala Beach for overnight stay. Did exactly the same and reached office by around 10pm and left for Arnala along with others. It took almost 2 hours and reached our Resort around half past midnight. There were a dozen of us, all of them couldn’t join as we had just planned in hurry. But boy what an awesome time we had. We quickly finished the dinner and left for the beach. The climate was pretty chill and it was totally dark everywhere..and yeah a bit scary too. Used the light from my mobile phone to guide us to the beach. There was no one on the beach except a dozen sysads talking about everything from Nagios to qmail, singing National Anthem to scaring each other with fundoo ghost stories. We had collected dried palm leaves on the way and lit a bonfire and danced around it singing the sysad song. In no time it was 5 30 am and we headed for the room as it was getting pretty chill and we all were tired of cracking jokes and laughing whole night.

Got up early on Sunday morning as we wanted to swim in the Resorts swimming pool but couldn’t as they were still cleaning it and it was gonna take a couple more hours. Drank fresh Neera of the palm trees around, had breakfast and headed for the Virar station. Caught the Churchgate fast and reached home.